Score one for the good guys: the House recently passed H R 985: the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act!
Scientists in government agencies (NASA, NOAA, FDA, etc), laboring for years under the heavy cloud of scientific suppression, can now feel safer if they want to call foul. And call foul they will, since there has been cripplingly obvious, sweeping, and routine suppression of scientific findings for the past few years. Examples of this aren't terribly hard to dig up. And those are just from my site. Try going to Chris Mooney's blog, or The Scientific Activist if you really want your blood to boil.
Interestingly, not a single Democrat voted against this bill on the House floor. Not one. Yet 94 votes against it were cast. Guess which party those Representatives belonged to?
Damnation. Science is not partisan. Science is reality. Those lawmakers who wish to make it a partisan issue will find themselves on the wrong end of reality soon enough. Let the whistles blow.
